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Microsoft hasn’t had great look with its beefier Surface notebooks. The original Surface Book looked very cool, but it was bulky and cursed with old hardware. The Surface Laptop Studio took two generations to live up to its potential, and by then it was also terribly expensive. Now Microsoft is making another grab for power users with the Surface Laptop Ultra, a 15-inch beast of a machine using NVIDIA’s RTX Spark system-on-a-chip for powerful graphics and AI performance. It’s a straightforward MacBook Pro competitor, with no weird hinges or removable screens like the previous high-end Surface notebooks. “This is the…

At CNET, we’ve been testing smart thermostats for years, so it’s always a little surprising to hear, “What’s a smart thermostat?” But only a fraction of American households, around 17%, actually use smart thermostats. That’s too bad, because they’re one of my favorite smart home innovations, and offer handy advantages for almost everyone. So, what’s the difference, aside from flashy new touchscreen designs? I’ll take you through what’s new with these thermostats and how your heating and cooling will never be the same (neither will your energy bills).Scheduled heating and cooling Thermostats like Ecobee’s allow for easier scheduling from a distance.…

Date: Sunday 31 MayKick-Off: 10:30pm BST / 5:30pm ET / 7:30am AEST Stream Brazil vs Panama free on GloboplayUse NordVPN to unblock free Globoplay stream Brazil vs Panama are both ramping up their World Cup preparations this weekend as they face off in a friendly at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.A Seleção is one of the favourites for the tournament, but with question marks over Neymar Jr’s fitness, attention is very much elsewhere. For Panama, it is a chance to test themselves against some of the world’s best before they embark on a second World Cup campaign.The big…

While each file system is sandboxed, meaning it’s isolated from other websites and from the device system itself, the JavaScript can measure the I/O interactions. Then, by running those interactions through a pretrained convolutional neural network—a system that uses deep learning to analyze text, audio, and images—the attacker can deduce various apps and websites open on the device. “The attacker continuously measures SSD contention by performing random reads from a large OPFS file,” the researchers explained. “SSD contention caused by user activity causes measurable latency differences for these read operations. By training a convolutional neural network (CNN) on these traces,…

The Spanish soccer player posted a bunch of images featuring the mystery product. Lamine Yamal via Instagram Beats has made a tradition of slipping unannounced products to famous athletes and letting a little mystery drive the hype train, and it’s just done it again with a pair of bubblegum pink (perhaps with a dash of lilac?) headphones. Spanish soccer player Lamine Yamal shared a series of pictures and a video on Instagram showing the headphones hanging from his bag and draped around his neck.  It’s hard to tell for sure if they’re on-ear or over-ear, but…

If you’ve bought Lionsgate movies or redeemed codes for them, we’ve got some good news for you: Its vast library is being added to the digital movie locker, Movies Anywhere. That means Lionsgate titles will now sync across any participating digital retailers you’ve linked to your Movies Anywhere account.Lionsgate says that a selection of Lionsgate movies will be eligible on Movies Anywhere beginning in June, with 225 of the studio’s most high-profile films made be available on the service, which is also a retailer. Going forward, around 100 additional films will be added monthly throughout 2026 and early 2027. According…

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Philips Café Aromis 8000 Series: two-minute reviewThe Philips Café Aromis 8000 Series is a premium automatic coffee maker that works brilliantly by itself, and even better when paired with the Philips HomeID mobile app.The Café Aromis offers a huge menu of over 50 different hot and cold drinks, and encourages you to tinker with brew settings to achieve the flavor you prefer with your chosen beans. You can do…

Domain name system (DNS) is the first thing you must use—whether or not you’re aware of that—before you can get “online.” Its role is so important, essential, and valuable that many companies want to provide you with its service, called DNS servers, for free. So what’s DNS, exactly? This post will answer that question and explain, in simple terms, the zeal around DNS hosting, why not all DNS services are created equal, and why it’s crucial to pick the right one for your network. I’ll also include a list of useful, free DNS servers you can use on your computer…

Authorities in the Netherlands said they dismantled a botnet that comprised more than 17 million devices and were managed by 200 servers in a joint operation by the police and the National Cyber Security Center. The action, announced Thursday, came about after a security researcher reported the sprawling network to authorities. The host infrastructure was located in the Netherlands. Used for criminal purposes “The police then seized several botnet servers from a hosting provider for investigation,” the NCSC said. “The botnet was taken offline by the provider because it was used for criminal purposes.” According to a report Thursday by…

The reboot of the classic Xbox series is now coming out in February 2027. Fable, a reboot of the Xbox fantasy RPG series developed by Playground Games, has been delayed. The game’s release date is shifting from fall 2026 to February 2027 “so it can have the dedicated moment it deserves,” according to a post from Xbox on X. The new release date will give developers more time to polish the game before it comes out, while also moving it out of the blast radius of Grand Theft Auto VI, which is scheduled for release on November 19. This isn’t…